"The Obama administration has refused to make legally enforceable rules for immigration detention, rejecting a federal court petition by former detainees and their advocates and embracing a Bush-era inspection system that relies in part on private contractors."
“'This whole detention system that has been created is a human rights nightmare,' said Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center. 'The past administration created this, and now we need to dismantle it.'"